Child, you're forgiven and loved.

Topic: Repentance & Forgiveness
Speaker: Shirley Brownhill

This week our speaker is truly annointed by the blood of Christ.

I began to write as I listened to 'Forgiven & Loved' by Jimmy Needham:

"Dirty deeds have done me in, 

but that won't stop the faithful friend. 

Giving mercy once again as you Heal, 

here it is I'm feeling it...

Oh He died, He died to rectify my hopeless situation 

and His blood commands my guilt to leave. 

Now on Calvary I stand, 

empty pockets, open hands. 

Oh there is no condemnation for me. 

I tried and tried to rectify my hopeless situation, 

but I bought the lie I still have work to do. 

Now, I'm working 9 to 5 like I can earn my own salvation,

but there is no condemnation in you. 

Child, you're forgiven and loved."

How perfect is my Savior that He gives to me His surplus of grace and mercy as I need it. I began to write and as I thought of what the Spirit had spoken to me so far in the week, I selected a song at random, but not at all random to our God. Just a cool beginning to open up this post.

So we're talking about forgiveness and repentance this week and I have much to be forgiven of, but more than that I have so much to forgive. I have harbored anger, doubt, failure, depression, stress, and all sorts of things in my spirit and it has trapped my soul from being able to fully come to God and receive His mercy.

So, I'm going to share some notes of mine:

Remember when God was your everything? When you cried out for him and He came to you? Remember when you were available and vulnerable to Him?

You have been created to have relationship with God and anything else is deception.

Sometimes Christians say, "It's okay to do that sin," and it's not because it separates you from the Savior.

We are so bound by our cultures that we are ashamed by the Gospel.

The world doesn't need pity, it needs Jesus.

-----*Compassion is not compassion without action.

Illustration:

Everyone drives about 10-20 miles over the speed limit and everyone "goes with the flow" until you see a police officer or radar and you realize that you, individually, are responsible for your decision. 

That is modern Christianity, everyone "goes with the flow" of society, but then there are these moments where they remember Jesus or feel convicted over something and maybe it lasts a while or maybe it lasts forever, but we have all got to realize that Jesus is who we are compared to and not society. We can't just say, "Well...at least I'm not as bad as that guy."

We are not to mock God's grace.

Unforgiveness ties and binds you to the person that has hurt you.

We cannot translate the Word of God into something more comfortable for us.
A person who knows God looks at their circumstances through God.
Hypocrite-someone who knows the truth, but doesn't live it.
With repentance we should ask what has my sin done in advancing Satan's kingdom?
God feels broken hearted over sin.
Sin is eager to control you.
Pressure is there because you're doing what God wants you to do.
Something God gave me actually happened.
We can't afford to miss our moments.
If we get conviction and our heart doesn't follow then our heart gets hard.
Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal your heart.
Ask for forgiveness from each person you've been sexually immoral with.
Pray for purity and holiness to be restored.
When you have shame over your life the enemy has control over your life.

Don't forget where you came from. Remember that you were that someone...take the time to think about the Hand that pulled you out. Pray for me.

Is That Really You, GOD?

God is consistently wrecking me for His words, to speak life into His lost lambs.
Two instances of people yearning for Jesus:

Earlier this week we found out that 2 of the rooms in the house had bed bugs. This spurred those two rooms having to do laundry at the public laundromat for about 7 hours. A few students took their books, Is That Really You God or ITRYG, to read while they washed. While they were there they began to talk to an English-speaking woman who was really interested in the book and what it was about. One of the students began to tell her it was about hearing the voice of God and the start of YWAM. Of course this led to questions about what YWAM was and the student was able to share what we were doing here in Biarritz and what our ultimate mission here was. The woman yearned for God and His love and told them how her family thought she was crazy for wanting to believe...they continued to talk for awhile and the student gave the woman his copy of ITRYG. She offered to pay several times not realizing how much more God wants to give her, the student denied payment, but extended an invite to come and hangout...as this woman was leaving one of the female students said, "You know, this wasn't a coincidence that you met us here today." to which she replied, "I know, because on my way here, I asked God to show himself to me today." It was really beautiful.

The second being when we did evangelism at the beach. One of the girls asked a woman if she could share her testimony and the woman agreed. As the girl told her testimony the woman began to cry and they prayed together. God is moving, His power is beyond everything and without compare. I just...cannot begin to explain what He is doing here!

We have a book report due Monday over Is That Really You, God? which is the story of how YWAM began and the vision, the love, the everything that went into what it is now. The book definitely changed my life...just reading what God had done in these people's lives! It just really opened me up to who God is and the point He is trying to get across to me...so, I see prayer differently, I see trusting Him differently, I see parts of my calling differently. The book really is going to help me further my submission to God's will!

So now I face decisions, I have things in front of me that must be taken care of, and I have things to confess and people to whom I need to apologize for a series of things.

I must ask that God gives me faith and reassurance to seek Him and not His creations, to truly understand how marvelous He is and that nothing is beyond His grasp, that financial obligations are nothing to Him and that you must trust in His deliverance to truly understand His grace.

Just gotta keep my eyes on the Creator and praise Him and not the things created which I find myself doing too much of.